President Donald Trump capped off his tumultuous two-day visit at NATO headquarters on Thursday by boldly declaring that all NATO members agreed to increase their defense spending after he told them he was “extremely unhappy.”
All NATO countries agreed in a 2014 summit to increase their defense spending to 2% of their GDP by 2024, and most NATO member countries have already laid out specific plans to meet that target. All NATO member countries pledged in a joint statement on Wednesday to continue their efforts to meet the 2% goal.
Jed Babbin is a former US Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and a columnist for the Washington Times and the American Spectator. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the NATO summit: